Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries
Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a great opportunity for high school trainees and some intermediate school students to find out about Walt Whitman while contributing to a national task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to provide context for the documents that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.
If you see it somewhere else, it has actually been used without authorization. Websites that take my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin and WayBetterSite.
Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. Your chosen file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen.
the video below.
A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The function of the task is to employ the help of the general public to transcribe countless primary source documents that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, presidential papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is looking for assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..
The purpose of the task is to get the aid of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source documents that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have actually been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential documents, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.
